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Calvin Johnson retires from the National Football League.
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Johnson is the only player in the Super Bowl era (since 1967) to average 120 yards per game in a season when he averaged 122.8 yards per game in 2012.
Johnson holds the all-time record for the highest average yards per game in NFL history (86.1). He also is tied with Hall of Fame WR Lance Alworth for the most 200-yard games in NFL history with five, and he has the most 200-yard games (6) in both regular season and postseason games.
It took Johnson fewer games to reach 10,000 (115) and 11,000 (127) yards than any player in NFL history.
From 2011-13, Johnson accumulated 5,137 yards and became the only player in NFL history to gain 5,000 receiving yards over the three-year span. Johnson averaged 111.7 yards per game in the 46 games played those three seasons, and he also compiled at least 105 -yard average in each of those three seasons. His 3,645 yards gained in 2012-2013 is also an NFL record over a two-year span.
Only Johnson and Hall of Fame WR Lance Alworth ever averaged 100 yards per game over spans of 60, 70 and 75 games.
From the time he entered the NFL in 2007, he caught more touchdowns (83) and gained more yards (11,619) than any other player through 2015.
Among the franchise’s single-season records, Johnson holds four of the seven best totals in receiving yards, including 1,964 in 2012 (1st), 1,681 in 2011 (3rd), 1,494 in 2013 (4th) and 1,331 in 2008 (tied for 7th). Of the franchise’s eight best seasons in receiving touchdowns, he owns four of those Top-8 (team record 16 in 2011, 12 in 2008, 2010 and 2013).
Johnson’s most prolific game in his career occurred against the Dallas Cowboys October 27, 2013 when he caught 14 passes for a team record 329 yards, which ranks as the second highest-single game total in NFL history and the most by a receiver in a non-overtime game. In his playoff debut, Johnson recorded 211 receiving yards at New Orleans January 7, 2012 and set a new team single-game postseason record.
